PROPOSALS FOR IMPROVING THE METHODOLOGY OF FIRE AND STRIKE CAPABILITIES OF ARMY GROUPS DETERMINATION IN CASE OF FIGHTING WITH ENEMY ARMORED OBJECTS AND IT’S PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION

Abstract

The problem of determining the fire and strike capabilities of army groups in combating (fighting) the enemy's armored objects is formulated, which generally consists in lack of standardized approaches in the military management units and established form of the report. The need for program implementation of a single methodology in a complex of mathematical models and information-calculation tasks is emphasized. A detailed analysis of previous methods was carried out. The main shortcomings of most methods of the Soviet period consist of the lack of combat efficiency coefficients of modern anti-tank weapons and the impossibility of taking into account the presence of various types of enemy tanks and armored fighting vehicles on the battlefield. The main shortcomings of most of the methods developed in the Armed Forces of Ukraine are the replacement of combat effectiveness coefficients of anti-tank weapons with the coefficients of combat potential, separate, fundamentally different approaches to determining the capabilities of artillery anti-tank weapons and the capabilities of anti-tank weapons of tank and mechanized units, inflated, unreliable values of the capabilities of artillery anti-tank weapons etc. A general scheme of calculations for determining the fire and strike capabilities of army groups in fighting enemy armored objects is provided with a detailed description for each stage. The essence of the calculations is to estimate the armored group of the enemy through the number of conventional tanks, to evaluate the fire capabilities of anti-tank weapons to damage enemy armored targets in conventional tanks, to determine the composition of the enemy group, the blow of which can be repelled by the fire of anti-tank weapons in the defense or defeated in the offensive. Keywords: fire and strike capabilities, operational-tactical calculations, fighting enemy armored objects, operation of army groups (forces), fire damage, anti-tank weapon.